Everybody Unknown Ancient Chinese Life (8)

As far back as primitive era, in order to keep the hunting food, the ancient Chinese will put food into the cave and put one big stone to block the cave. Afterward, people truss up the valuables with the wild beast skin. People began to put money into box of different material with the development of ware and lock. However, there were robbers unavoidably in ancient times. Thereupon China’s ancient bank — “money shop” appeared, also became more professional “sheltered the illicit money” organization.

Does China’s ancient paper money need anti-fake?

The earliest paper money of China was issued by the Sung dynasty government in 1023. Its anti-fake method is to affix two seal on paper money. Afterward, paper money pattern became very complicated, added the colorful pattern, in this way the anti-fake function is stronger. Hereafter, each dynasty had own unique anti-fake method.

How do the ancient Chinese carve jade and gem ornaments?

The ancient Chinese realized the preciousness of jade long ago. The ancient Chinese often carve jade ware with quartz and diamond. As everyone knows, the hardness of diamond is the highest in the world. Even harder jade can be carved too.